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But then, is Northern Ireland a unique example, or does this kind of explanation only hold more generally in democratic and developed countries?
It's definitely not a democratic state.
That market outcomes and democratic voices and battles for votes can end up stifling progress.
I was born in the city called Bukavu, South Kivu, in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
You really believe that if there are democratic elections in Egypt now, that a government could emerge that espouses some of the values you've spoken about so inspiringly?
There are a lot of countries, oil-producing countries, that aren't very democratic, but supported by the United States.
In a democratic country, science must reach to our most oppressed, to the most marginalized children.
And thanks to that, Turkey has been able to reasonably create a success story in which Islam and the most pious understandings of Islam have become part of the democratic game, and even contributes to the democratic and economic advance of the country.
The reality is that even in democratic societies today, we do not have good answers for how you balance the need for security and law enforcement on one hand and protection of civil liberties and free speech on the other in our digital networks.
One of the problems we're facing is, in my view, that there are no globalized, youth-led, grassroots social movements advocating for democratic culture across Muslim-majority societies.
There are no ideas and narratives and leaders and symbols advocating the democratic culture on the ground.
Because those who aspire to democratic culture are in power, or have societies that are leading globalized, powerful societies, powerful countries.
To go around saying that I believe democratic culture is the best that we've arrived at as a form of political organizing is associated with extremism.
What I mean by that is, if the world superpower today was a communist, it would be much easier for democracy activists to use democracy activism as a form of resistance against colonialism, than it is today with the world superpower being America, occupying certain lands and also espousing democratic ideals.
So roughly these four reasons make it a lot more difficult for democratic culture to spread as a civilizational choice, not merely as a political choice.
Neoconservatism had the philosophy that you go in with a supply-led approach to impose democratic values from the top down.
Mass movements in Pakistan have been represented after the Arab uprisings mainly by organizations claiming for some form of theocracy, rather than for a democratic uprising.
So what's needed is those organizations on the ground advocating for the democratic culture itself to create the demand on the ground for this culture.
We need to see how we can help those societies move from political coalitions, loosely based political coalitions, to civilizational coalitions that are working for the ideals and narratives of the democratic culture on the ground.
That doesn't guarantee that what comes next will be a society built on democratic values.
But that will require helping these societies transition from having merely political coalitions to building genuinely grassroots-based social movements that advocate for the democratic culture.
And we've made a start for that in Pakistan with a movement called Khudi, where we are working on the ground to encourage the youth to create genuine buy-in for the democratic culture.
I went to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Dynamically, it has changed over time to become less authoritarian and more democratic.
But nevertheless, the system has moved in a more liberal direction, moved in a more democratic direction.
Issues such as democratic rights and voter registration, ensuring that every member of a congregation has a voter registration card, understands their democratic rights and can exercise that.
In October, I spent some time in the Democratic Republic of Congo, which is the [second] largest country in Africa.
And I realized that, when I'd left the country, free and fair elections in a democratic environment were a dream.
The defeated candidate gave up power and made way for Ghana to move into a new democratic cycle.
To me, it's one of the most democratic designs ever created.
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